Sailorboy Slims Down

Bodyweight Exercises

carsondude — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:58:52 +0000

For the past 6 months or so, I’ve really enjoyed adding bodyweight exercises to my routines. I’ve always been about building long, lean muscle and these exercises are perfect. Here are some of my favorites:

Pullups, Chinups, Pushups, squats, lunges, dips, burgees, mountain climbers, and jumps.

Any other ideas?

Extreme Protein

carsondude — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:31:59 +0000

I’m trying out a protein called "extreme protein" by RSS. It’s not available on BB.com. anyone given it a try?

Extreme Protein

carsondude — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:31:45 +0000

I’m trying out a protein called "extreme protein" by RSS. It’s not available on BB.com. anyone given it a try?

Extreme Protein

carsondude — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:31:31 +0000

I’m trying out a protein called "extreme protein" by RSS. It’s not avaliable on BB.com. anyone given it a try?

WOW

carsondude — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:53:24 +0000

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I posted!

I’ve still been working. My diet has slip sometimes but I’ve still been gyming it. Unfortunately as I was hoping to lose some weight I’ve only added inches to my arms, chest, legs, ect which is good I suppose but now I have to get bigger clothes which is kind of strange to tell people when I’ve been working out and dieting so much. Oh well, my waist is definitely getting smaller. I’ve always had a big chest compared to my waist and now that is even more pronounced.

Well I’m off to the gym now. Enjoy!

Still working

carsondude — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:16:30 +0000

even though I haven’t been posting. I missed about 2 days because of some other things but I figure 5 weeks on and 2 days off is not too bad. Plus I’m already back on the "wagon".

The results are still coming and I can see and feel myself gaining a lot of size. I just still need to cut away some more BF. I’m going to step it up and add some more HIIT like jump roping and sprints.

Diet is still going pretty good. I’m house sitting for someone this week and they don’t have all the food that I need unfortunately. I brought over some whey and that’s helped out a lot.

Here’s to continued success!

Leg Assault

carsondude — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:32:42 +0000

I just killed my legs today. I’ve never had a leg workout like that before.
Squats supersetted with leg extentions

then

Leg curls super setted with hyperextentions

4-5 sets of each. Holy crap I was dead. I couldn’t even walk to the hyperextension machine. Also, I haven’t done hyperextensions in a LONG time and they hurt a lot. I couldn’t stretch out my hammies because my back was so tight and sore.

I can’t think of a better way to end my day.

Killer workout

carsondude — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:41:42 +0000

I had a great workout today.
It happened again this weekend. I’ve been taking sat and sunday off as my rest days but I’m not going to anymore. Without working out I just don’t have the motivation for my diet. I’m just going to change my schedule so that I only have one day of at a time. That’ll help a little bit. What can I say? I’m addicted?

Sailing Disaster

carsondude — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:55:29 +0000

I’m not sure how many of you have heard of this story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/09/sailors.rescued/index.html

I was up practically all weekend following it as many of my friends were on board. I have actually been on this boat before and really wanted to participate in this regatta.

It is such a tragic loss of a great man and I hope you can keep him and his family in your prayers.

N.O. day one review

carsondude — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:29:51 +0000

well I’d say I was happy with my results. The stuff didn’t taste too great but it wasn’t awful(I know that will change in about 2 weeks). I did legs and shoulders today with 20 minutes of HIIT. The NO was great. I don’t ever drink caffeine except for the occasional green tea so I’m sure that hit me pretty hard. It was a great pump up for my workout because I was hyper and almost out of my body. I can’t say that it really helped me lift a lot more (although I can’t be sure) but it was interesting and I’ll use it again. I don’t plan on using it everyday, probably only 2 maybe 3 days a week on my really hard workouts. That way I won’t build up a tolerance. Plus I’m already pretty motivated without the stuff.

I just took one scoop with about 16 oz of water and stirred it up. Next time I’ll probably use a little less water so I’m not drinking for 10 minutes. The results were somewhat instantaneous. I was just suddenly on a caffeine like hype. The effects only seemed to last about an hour and a half for me which is all I need but I suppose I could drink another scoop as I begin my workout to keep the effects lasting strong.

Today concludes the end of my first month of training (4 weeks) and I’m pretty excited. I’ve been keeping to my diet very well minus 2 big cheat meals. If I can keep the up I’m very excited about what I’ll look like and feel like in August. Next week I start an even more intense workout filled with cardio and weights all in the same sets and it’s going to be a blast.
Have a great weekend!